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More Ranting on Transformers 2
I can understand why it won the Razzie this year for Worst Picture. I'm really wondering right now how it was even allowed to be made in the first place. It has a horrible plot, it rips off other movies, it's offensive and it has inaccurate information in it.
Last year I heard of the racism involving some of the Autobots. I was prepared for it and it still ended up being worst than I thought it would. I'm not going to touch it though since people better than me ranted about it last year. It was bad and that's all I'm going to say.
What I hadn't heard about though was the ageism involving Jetfire. It really struck a nerve with me since until last year I had been caring for my grandmother (and before that, my grandfather). What they did in the movie really bugged me and it just seemed so unnecessary. I get the impression they meant it to be funny, but horribly failed.
Then at one point they're at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (which was wrongly identified as the 'Air and Space Museum'). The place has close to 200 planes there and yet in the background at one point the Enola Gay is shown. I repeat, out of 200 planes they had to show a plane that was involved with one of the most horrifying events that the world has ever seen. Now, I don't have an issue with the museum having the plane on display, because even though it was involved in such a horrible incident we shouldn't try and erase it from history. I just don't think it should have been shown in the movie because by casually showing it, it makes me think that the film makers are trying to say that dropping the A-bomb was a good thing. With a different movie, perhaps I wouldn't think that, but when it's proven that they think racism and ageism is okay, I can't help but think it.
Offensive material aside, the other thing that struck me about the movie was that a lot of it was ripped off from other movies.
For example early in the movie is a female 'Terminator'. And at one point she attacks the heroes while they're trying to escape in a (non-Autobot) car. Throughout the scene I couldn't help but think that not only have I seen it done before (with both female and male Terminators) but I've seen it done better, years ago when the technology wasn't as good.
And remember that scene in the Matrix where Agent Smith places that bug-thing inside Neo? The Decepticons place a bug that looks exactly like it into Sam at one point (except they insert it through his mouth).
And then there's a scene towards the end of the film that takes place at Al_Khazneh. Granted the place is pretty impressive so I can understand why they wanted to film there, but it was already made famous in another movie! It's impossible to watch those scenes without going "Dude! That's where Indy and his dad found the Holy Grail!".
There were probably other moments that I missed when I wasn't paying attention.
All of this and a bad plot makes it one horrible movie.
Last year I heard of the racism involving some of the Autobots. I was prepared for it and it still ended up being worst than I thought it would. I'm not going to touch it though since people better than me ranted about it last year. It was bad and that's all I'm going to say.
What I hadn't heard about though was the ageism involving Jetfire. It really struck a nerve with me since until last year I had been caring for my grandmother (and before that, my grandfather). What they did in the movie really bugged me and it just seemed so unnecessary. I get the impression they meant it to be funny, but horribly failed.
Then at one point they're at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (which was wrongly identified as the 'Air and Space Museum'). The place has close to 200 planes there and yet in the background at one point the Enola Gay is shown. I repeat, out of 200 planes they had to show a plane that was involved with one of the most horrifying events that the world has ever seen. Now, I don't have an issue with the museum having the plane on display, because even though it was involved in such a horrible incident we shouldn't try and erase it from history. I just don't think it should have been shown in the movie because by casually showing it, it makes me think that the film makers are trying to say that dropping the A-bomb was a good thing. With a different movie, perhaps I wouldn't think that, but when it's proven that they think racism and ageism is okay, I can't help but think it.
Offensive material aside, the other thing that struck me about the movie was that a lot of it was ripped off from other movies.
For example early in the movie is a female 'Terminator'. And at one point she attacks the heroes while they're trying to escape in a (non-Autobot) car. Throughout the scene I couldn't help but think that not only have I seen it done before (with both female and male Terminators) but I've seen it done better, years ago when the technology wasn't as good.
And remember that scene in the Matrix where Agent Smith places that bug-thing inside Neo? The Decepticons place a bug that looks exactly like it into Sam at one point (except they insert it through his mouth).
And then there's a scene towards the end of the film that takes place at Al_Khazneh. Granted the place is pretty impressive so I can understand why they wanted to film there, but it was already made famous in another movie! It's impossible to watch those scenes without going "Dude! That's where Indy and his dad found the Holy Grail!".
There were probably other moments that I missed when I wasn't paying attention.
All of this and a bad plot makes it one horrible movie.